Speco Blue vs BendRight
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Speco Blue
Access and manage Speco Technologies' NR and HR recorders remotely. View live feeds, playback recordings, take snapshots, and receive event notifications. The app also allows for local recording and two-way audio communication.
- Live video streaming
- Playback recorded video and audio
- Snapshot capture and sending
- Local video recording
- Event push notifications
- Remote recorder settings adjustment
- Two-way audio communication
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Use Speco Blue to access Speco Technologies' NR and HR models of recorders for the following: - Live view of all channels - Playback of previously recorded video and audio - Take and send snapshots of any channel - Record video to your local device - Receive push notifications of events and tap to directly view on Speco Blue - Change certain remote settings of your recorder - 2-Way audio communication - Analytics search of recordings from NR recorders
BendRight
This app calibrates to your specific conduit bender, providing accurate bend calculations for real-world job sites. It features an AR overlay for visualizing bends and offers step-by-step procedures for multiple bend types. Works offline with no ads or subscriptions.
- Bender calibration for personalized accuracy
- AR camera overlay for bend visualization
- Step-by-step procedures for 9 bend types
- Offline functionality
- Hi-vis multiplier marks and centerline math
- No ads or subscriptions
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BendRight is a conduit-bending calculator built for working electricians. Not a classroom tool. Not a demo. Something you can actually pull out on a job site, in the dark, with dirty gloves. The problem with most bending calculators: they use generic take-up numbers. Your bender is not generic. A worn shoe, a different brand, a cold morning - all of it changes where your bend actually lands. BendRight fixes that. Calibrate-your-bender first. You make one stub on your bender, measure it, enter it. The app learns the actual take-up for that bender and uses it from then on. Every calculation after that is matched to YOUR tool, not the textbook average. When you're in the field, the number that matters goes up big in hi-vis yellow - the same multiplier mark you've been using since apprenticeship. Muscle memory doesn't need retraining. Below it, in small print, the precise centerline math so you can see why it works. Both numbers, right there. Before you cut, hold your phone up to the wall. The AR camera overlay shows you the bend shape against the actual surface you're working on. Catch a clearance problem before you touch the conduit, not after. 9 bend types covered: - Offset - Stub-up - 3-point saddle - 4-point saddle - Kick - Rolling offset - Back-to-back - Segment bends - Concentric bends Each one has step-by-step procedures with action thumbnails. No hunting through menus. No reading a wall of text on a ladder. No ads. No subscription. One-time purchase. Works fully offline - no signal required in the field. Built by a Master Electrician, solo. Not a SaaS team that's never touched a bender.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: BendRight at 100% against Speco Blue's 47%. BendRight also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.1) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 5 months). Speco Blue's advantage is price (Free vs $6.99) and ratings volume (101 vs 1). On ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Speco Blue is free to download; BendRight costs $6.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
BendRight holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Speco Blue has 101 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 47% of Speco Blue's written reviews are positive against 100% of BendRight's.
Speco Blue ships an update every 5 months, BendRight every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Speco Blue | BendRight |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $6.99 |
| Rating | 3.1 (101 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 46.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 101 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.1 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 106 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Components Specialties, Inc | JASON LLOYD WALLS |
Customer experience
Speco Blue
BendRight
Bugs and requests
Speco Blue
Reported bugs
29 issues- Menu comes and goes at will
- Buttons to view camera or review past footage cease to function
- Defaults to unviewable substream settings
- App keeps crashing on iPhone 14 Pro and 13
- Connection of NVR server loses signal randomly
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- Constantly crashing, not able to connect, unexplained logouts
- Bugs and issues with iOS 17, consistently crashing
- App crashes immediately when trying to add a location on iPhone 15 Pro
- App crashes every time you turn to landscape mode on iOS 17
- Can't access camera during business on new iPhone 15 Pro Max
- App keeps freezing and crashes if you go to landscape mode
- Logs you out anytime then you have to reset all over again
- When watching a camera, it downgrades resolutions
- Event notifications not working with iOS 16.5.1
- App is not compatible with iPad operating system 16.3
- Cannot play back anything, playback shows black screen with 'camera not connected'
- Playback is sketchy and sluggish, implodes every few minutes
- App is unusable on iPad OS 16 with Stage Manager
- App struggles with switching from portrait to landscape mode on iPad
- App icons in the top left and right corners are hard to access due to stretched view on iPhone 14 Pro Max
- New update dislikes auto resolution function where app lowers camera viewing resolution
- App crashes any time I try to view more than five cameras
- App is the biggest battery drain ever
- App does not work well on iPhone 13
- App crashed after less than 2 months
- Cannot get app to work to view live feed and recorded
- Cannot see anything with the new orange colors on intelligence view playback
- App will not connect to the NVR after a power outage until you reboot NVR, generate a new QR code and reconfigure app
- Nothing works when needed most
Requested features
14 requests- Allow admin access from app for editing settings and receiving motion notifications
- Improve default substream settings for Speco profile
- Allow changing notification sound
- Implement full setting configurations in the app (like on NVR)
- Improve UX/UI design to match competitors
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- Make app work in landscape mode on iPad
- Create an iPad-specific version that utilizes screen real estate
- Remove auto resolution function
- Optimize for new iPhones (dynamic island)
- Allow viewing notifications in the app without push notifications
- Improve fast forward speed in playback
- Fix playback slowing down
- Allow viewing more than five cameras without crashing
- Reduce battery drain
BendRight
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Speco Blue
No in-app purchases
BendRight
No in-app purchases
Questions
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